drawings and ramblings by matthieu gallais

Dynamic Digital Dreams

My good friend Adam ‘Kemek’ Douglas has made me the honor of picking one of my drawings as the cover of his latest release, Dynamic Digital Dreams.

I did this drawing a while ago, along with a few others depicting people waiting for friends in front of Hachiko, the iconic statue of the dog of the same name, in Shibuya, that many people use as a meeting spot. The series was an interesting exercise, trying to draw characters from a near future, showing both technological evolutions but also the societal ones Japan may display in a few years, notably a more and more multiracial population, as indicated by the fact that foreigners in Japan have more than doubled over the last 20 years.

I’ll post that series here in a while, I just need to get back to it and finish it (like many others…).

For those curious, I made the illustration on an iPad Pro 9.7″, using the Procreate app, and I did the text pass on PC with Photoshop CC.